I don't necessarily see a problem with this, although it sounds like a kind of dumb idea to base a TV show on....

It would work great with kids from Cuba or Trinidad, because they are already quite used to taking on adult responsibility from what I've seen. I'm not quite sure how well it would work with North American kids....but it might, I suppose.

Seems to me that if you get any bunch of kids together in the country for 40 days, someone always gets sunburned or eats something they shouldn't or falls in the river or something.... ;-) At least that's how I remember it from when I was that age. Somehow we all managed to survive.